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Catherine is chief of a dozen characters who move through Author Gordon's seventh novel like shrouded figures on their way to the graveyard. For The Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
...Graveyard. One casualty of the revolt was U.S. popularity. While the fighting was still going on, Colonel Tito Calvo, a rebel leader, drove up to the U.S. Embassy in a tank. He asked for Ambassador Walter Thurston, pleaded the ancient right of asylum. Thurston correctly told him that the U.S. recognized no such right. After the Colonel was seized and shot, Salvadorians blamed the U.S. for his death...
...dreaded Dictator did not reply. A few days later, the mother and sister of an arrested rebel begged the Ambassador to save his life. Thurston refused (with perfect correctness), adding that Martinez had assured him that there would be no executions. Screamed the sister: "Right now in the graveyard, men are being shot...
When Frossia returned to Petrograd after the revolution, she found the city of her girlhood a graveyard. On her first night there she stumbled through the snow to the shattered summerhouse in the ruins of her family home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather...
...crossed a bridge. E and G Companies were somewhere ahead of us, trying to find something resembling the German line. It was quiet as a graveyard, yet miles ahead apprehensive Germans began shooting up flares-green, red and a few white...